Pain Management Journal Benchmark

The service I work for operates just south of the Metro Atlanta area and is owned by an established and successful hospital system. Our service is relatively small, four twenty-four hour trucks and one day truck, compared to number of call we handle per year, but also one of the most respected services in the metro Atlanta area as well. So, the areas that I would benchmark for clinical areas are the administration of pain medication along with the associated symptoms and the number of successful intravenous attempts for each provider within the service. The operational measures would include the time a twelve-lead electrocardiogram is performed within the first ten minutes of arriving at patient’s side complaining of chest pain or shortness of breath and out at hospital times. The final measure that I would like to measure is the personal performance of each paramedic to properly recognize changes in the electrocardiogram (EKG) and other symptoms that indicate a patient is or could be experiencing symptoms of an acute myocardial infarctions within the first ten minutes of arriving at their side. I will be using the following types of benchmarks for my data collection which are internal and comparative benchmarks. The internal benchmarks will in the two clinical areas of pain management and successful intravenous attempts and …show more content…
This benchmark is not only vital to supporting national standards also keeping our hospital’s cardiac accreditation status. More important than keeping the accreditation in good standing this benchmark allows field personnel the chance to administer the best possible care before the patient ever arrives at the emergency room. This benchmark will also allow us to see how we measure up to both smaller and larger services within our geographical